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New York, February 24, 2021 - Graduate Center, CUNY/Brooklyn College professor was part of a discovery of the first fossil evidence of any primate, illustrating the earliest steps of primates 66 million years ago following the mass extinction that wiped out all dinosaurs and led to the rise of mammals.
Stephen Chester, an assistant professor of anthropology and paleontologist at the Graduate Center, CUNY and Brooklyn College, was part of a team of 10 researchers from across the United States who analyzed several fossils of Purgatorius, the oldest genus in a group of the earliest-known primates called plesiadapiforms. These ancient mammals were small-bodied and ate specialized diets of insects and fruits that varied across species.
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Twin Cities technologist sees expanding future for young minorities in IT February 6, 2021 8:00am Text size Copy shortlink:
Steve Buchanan caught a break as a teenager 20-plus years ago when a relative referred him to someone who worked for a small computer-consulting firm.
The connection worked, although Buchanan remembers feeling a little off as the only Black worker in a group of white people. I got my second job because I was in a barbershop and the barber knew an African-American guy who owned an IT firm, Buchanan said. And I got my second job in tech.
A couple of years later, Buchanan became an information technology contractor at Target.
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Over the weekend, health officials confirmed Minnesota s first cases of a more contagious strain of the coronavirus
It originally surfaced in the United Kingdom in September. The five cases are all located in the Twin Cities area in Hennepin, Ramsey, Dakota and Carver counties. This is circulating in Minnesota, said Kris Ehresmann, the infectious disease director with the Minnesota Department of Health. We have identified these four counties, but we have been looking for this and know it s circulating.
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The strain is not known to cause more serious disease but is thought to be more easily spread and impacts younger populations.